To: Grand Pollo and Helpmann
Since I'm going to BC in mid Feb 05 I have a couple of questions for you gentlemen who are seasoned veterans there.
* Grand Pollo..In one of your recent posts you mentioned that there are better places than BC. This makes me wonder if I should be headed to some place different. I can only speak very little spanish, and I'm a newbie to mongering outside the US. However, the DR scene seems very inviting to me. I'm planning a 6 night trip solo.
* Helpmann..Whos is fuckpuppet? I may like to look her up when I'm in BC.
It sounds to me like you had a good time with her.
Thank you both for helping out a DR newbie. Sailor02
Free sex vs. paid sex, how much, and how much tip?
[QUOTE=Grand Pollo]Well, following the advice below (700-1000 plus tip) you will be overpaying. If there is a legitimate massage parlor I have yet to find it in Boca Chica, they are all sex joints, plain and simple and they are all the dumbest "investment" you can make, period.[/QUOTE]Haven't been to Boca Chica lately as I was spending extensive time in Brazil, but I thought I'd still chime in, based on my prior experience in BC. Grand Pollo is right on, as usual. Don't even think about massage parlors in Boca. They're all sex joints, and they are all ripoffs. Period.
Let me also add something about tipping girls beyond the agreed-upon price, or overpaying in general. In my experience, that's one of the main differences between a first-world country like the US and a third-world country like the DR, and the type of girls you'll be dealing with. In the US, the biggest sin is undertipping. In countries like the DR, and especially in a place like BC, the biggest sin is overtipping (or overpaying, for that matter). By doing so, the message you'll be sending is "I don't care about money, and I don't mind giving it away for free!". In a Western country, a generous tip will mark you as, well, generous and appreciative, and more likely than not, get you better service in the future. In countries like the DR, it will mark you as an ignorant sucker, and more likely than not, get you worse service in the future. This might not make sense to you, initially, but there's no denying that it's right on the money. The logic goes pretty much like this: "Why would anyone give away money for free?" I've made that mistake, too, and had to learn that lesson the hard way. Where most of the Boca chicas come from, i.e. the poorest and roughest neighborhoods, there is no more blatant sign of weakness than throwing away money by not demanding fair value in return. I call it the "favela street" mentality. Where these girls come from, there's just no room for appreciating generosity. And if you think you can teach the girl how to appreciate your generosity for what it is, think again. Remember "You can take the girl out of the street, but you can't take the street out of the girl."
To Kmart and his question of "any chance of getting any for free?"
I got a few questions for you, Kmart. How fluent is your Spanish? How much time do you have to go through the usual dating routine? How much money do you want to spend to take a girl out, date her, buy her gifts? How much energy are you willing to expend to chase after a freebie? How much headache are you ready to heap upon yourself to be able to say you scored one for free? How much tolerance do you have with her jealousy, her possessiveness, her mood changes, her mind games?
Depending on your answer to any of the above, I think it's not absolutely impossible to get it for free. Hey, even lawyers work pro-bono sometimes. But the question is, why would you wanna get it for free?
You see, by the time you add up all of the above, you'll understand that "free" almost always means more troublesome, expensive, time-consuming, and just outright draining that P4P. In other words, it might be free, according to how you define "free" - but it sure isn't cheap. I would not be worried about paying for sex in the DR - if you do it right, it's not that expensive. To use your own term - yes, you can monger on a budget. Whatever budget you have, use it wisely. But I would get very very concerned when a girl starts talking about "free sex". By now most of the time I run. I just figured that between the expense of headache pills and trauma counseling fees afterwards, I just can't afford free sex.
Maybe I should do a Boca Chica monger commercial one day, for all those folks that don't get it, to really hammer home that point:
"Drinks at Duarte: 100 Pesos.
Motoconcho to hotel: 20 Pesos.
Great sex TLN: 700 Pesos.
Opportunity to send her on her way the next morning without buying food, drinks, clothes, cell phones, stories of sick baby, out-of-job brother, dying mother, unjustly jailed father, debt-ridden aunt, Western Union and claims of undying love, plus chance to go out again and again to pick up another girl day after day after day without headaches: pricessless!
There are some things money can't buy. For everything else, there's Mongercard."
Could we run that on the porn channel that most hotels seem to have in Boca? At all hours? Please??
El Austriaco
P.S.: Don't ask me about an application form or details about the "frequent scorer program" of the Mongercard. I am working on it, OK? :)